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          Jacobs 1961.

          Margaret Minister O’Keefe

          PROFILE-January + February 2012
          By Sarah Braunstein
          Photographs by Jarrod McCabe

          Both Sides Now: The Passion of Margaret Minister O’Keefe

           

           

          As a child, I had a pretty simplistic idea about how the art world worked.

          Jane jacobs urban planning

        1. Jane jacobs urban planning
        2. Jane jacobs vs robert moses
        3. Jacobs 1961
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          6. There were artists—those who made things, those who had things to say—and then there were other people. Artists on one side of the room and, on the other side, the lawyers and bankers and doctors and executives, those who made the world run smoothly but didn’t really understand us.

          I envisioned this divide to be like the shared bedroom of siblings who can’t get along, a line of masking tape down the middle. You here. Me here.

          Happily, I outgrew this conception.

          Life showed me, again and again, that people are never one thing, that identity is complicated, and that those who wear suits can be as radical as the guy in leather picketing city hall.

          I learned that artists and art advocates come in all shapes, and that corp